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Some of the nearly three dozen Haskell Indian Nations University employees who were terminated without cause due to sweeping federal budget cuts will be returning next week as adjunct professors.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
A federal judge on Thursday ruled in favor of the Lawrence City Commission in a lawsuit that had alleged commissioners violated a frequent public commenter’s freedom of speech.
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The singing Firebirds of Free State will perform music spanning all the way from 1954’s “Mister Sandman” to present-day hits, with plenty in between, during their upcoming “Encore” performances.
Douglas County commissioners have penned a letter to the four congresspeople who represent the county, asking them to “prevent a single branch of government from becoming too powerful.”
Kansas Senators advanced a constitutional amendment Wednesday that would convert Kansas’ method for selecting state supreme court justices from a merit-based system to an elections system.
Most of Lawrence had power restored by 5 p.m. Wednesday following high winds from a storm overnight that at one point left 2,400 Evergy customers without power.
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Claven Snow’s birth certificate has reflected his name and male gender identity for more than a decade, as does his current driver’s license. But his renewed passport, issued after Trump’s recent executive orders, came back with an “F” sex marker.
For Joanna Herrmann and 100-plus other opponents who spoke at a Kansas House hearing or submitted testimony, SB 76, which would forbid school employees from using preferred pronouns without parental consent, is both personal and hurtful.
Area experts will discuss how to improve maternal health outcomes as a community during a panel Saturday, which is also International Women’s Day.
Deerfield Elementary School and the Lawrence school district offices are closed Wednesday because of a neighborhood power outage. Phone lines are now working at all district buildings except for those two.
